How do you do to move out and in in the same day?

vicki2221

I'm moving next Thursday, and have taken notes of these great tips!

kerri_gt

TBagpuss wrote: »

When moving day gets closer, make a list of essentials to *not* pack - this would include a bag with clothes for each person, your hoover and other cleaning materials, bedding, and enough crockery and cutlery to use.

When we've moved (both moving ourselves and removal services) only hanging clothes have been 'packed' as such (ourselves these were on hangers in the back of the car, removal service used wardrobe boxes) For clothes in draws the draws were simply removed from the draw units with clothes in situ and replaced at the new destination. For smaller draws, the complete unit was just picked up - moved and put in its new home. There isn't a need to empty everything if its going with you.

easterbunni

Packed ourselves in the weeks leading up to the move, and used a removals firm - the house was empty by 1030! Had a couple of hours to kill so used that time to call the Councils, phone company etc, triple and quadruple check nothing was left behind, clean, have lunch in the local cafe, and then pootle the 25 miles to the new house.

dunroving

Some great tips in this thread. I am lucky in that I hope to move without the whole "same day" issue (i.e., I can move before completion on my own house).

The one thing that sticks out above all else for me is paying the extra ££ to have stuff packed. I was going to only have a fragile item and kitchen pack, but I think I may go the "whole hog", or at least close to it. I figure all my clothes except formal jackets, etc. can be folded and put into the many luggage bags I have. My books and other sturdy or soft stuff are already packed. I figure the time it would take me to figure out how to pack the awkward shaped stuff, I'm better off leaving it to the experts.

I was fascinated by the various opinions on whether you would/should clean your house. I can't imagine just doing a 20-minute run-through with the hoover, and am considering paying a local company to do a deep clean. Even though the buyer may start off by doing a clean, it doesn't mean you should leave it uncleaned. Interestingly, I found on the TA6 (Law Society Property Information Form), the seller does tick a box (Section 14.4) that confirms (or otherwise) they will ensure that, "all rubbish will be removed from the property ... and that the property will be left in a clean and tidy condition"

davidmcn

dunroving wrote: »

I can't imagine just doing a 20-minute run-through with the hoover, and am considering paying a local company to do a deep clean. I found on the TA6 (Law Society Property Information Form), the seller does tick a box (Section 14.4) that confirms (or otherwise) they will ensure that, "all rubbish will be removed from the property ... and that the property will be left in a clean and tidy condition"

"Clean and tidy" does not mean that you need to do a deep clean. I suspect most buyers would prefer just to get the keys and start moving in rather than be told they need to wait for your cleaners to finish scrubbing.

AylesburyDuck

Personally, and dont get me wrong it did irk me, i found that the first thing you do when move into a new home, is tutt and curse at the state the the last people have left it in. And give it a damn good clean yourself.
This time, when we retire and move to our final home i am going to do ZERO cleaning in the house we leave, other than what would normally be done, and cut out the middle man!

dunroving

davidmcn wrote: »

"Clean and tidy" does not mean that you need to do a deep clean. I suspect most buyers would prefer just to get the keys and start moving in rather than be told they need to wait for your cleaners to finish scrubbing.

As per my post, I'm not doing everything the same day, so they won't have to wait for "my" cleaners. ;-)

My point was mainly to an earlier post that said there was no requirement to leave the house clean. Depending on which box you tick on the TA6, there is some responsibility to at least consider whether you intend to leave the house clean. I've bought houses in the past that seemed like pigs lived there. I think the attitude is "I'll never see those people again, so why should I care whet they think?", but (to me, at least) there's an element of respect for other people in not leaving a house uncleaned.

JimmyTheWig

Cakeguts wrote: »

If completion is at 1pm that means the time when the house is owned by the buyers. This time has nothing to do with when the sellers feel like moving out or cleaning. At 1pm the sellers no longer own the house so they have no right to be in there or leave anything in there or be still moving out. The fact that buyers might not be moving in at 1pm doesn't alter the fact that is it their house then and no one else has the right to be in it.

I can't imagine any buyers being upset about the sellers still being in the house after completion if they are there cleaning and the buyers haven't got there yet!

kerri_gt

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

I can't imagine any buyers being upset about the sellers still being in the house after completion if they are there cleaning and the buyers haven't got there yet!

The last thing I wanted to do when we were moving was have to start cleaning - though I left our previous property spotless myself. We obviously lucked out with our vendors as they left the house spotless (including cleaning the oven and having the dishwasher repair man out on the day they were moving due to it having stopped working) I didn't have to clean a thing when we moved in.

Cakeguts

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

I can't imagine any buyers being upset about the sellers still being in the house after completion if they are there cleaning and the buyers haven't got there yet!

They have every right to be upset. The ex owners are in a house that they don't own anymore. Legally the sellers have no right to be there. Think of someone going into your house without your permission and proceeding to clean it. Would you be happy for them to be there even if you were out at the time?

The point about completion is that people sign to say that they will give vacant possession on completion if they are still in the house doing things they haven't given vacant possession at the time that the house no longer belongs to them. The keys have to be handed over or made available to the new owners at 1.00pm because that is when the house changes ownership.

Previous owners have no right to access a house that belongs to someone else even to clean it.

This has actually happened to us. We completed on a house at 1.00pm and at 2.00pm went round to start to sort it out (we were not moving in) the previous owner was still moving out and cleaning. They had assumed wrongly that because we didn't live close by we wouldn't need access to the whole house on that day. In the end the estate agents had to tell them that they no longer had a right to be there because it was by then our house to do with what we wished. Basically they were in the way in what should have been a vacant house.